oa Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa - Biology of Diloponis inconspicuus Pope (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), a predator of citrus red scale, with notes on the feeding behaviour of other scale predators

Abstract

Diloponis inconspicuus Pope was descriptionbed as a new genus and species of ladybird beetle by Pope (1961), and the determination of its taxonomic relationships with allied genera necessitated a revision of the tribe Pharini. In addition to the type specimens in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), London, male and female paratypes were deposited in the National Collection of Insects, Pretoria.